{"id":99220,"date":"2021-01-24T15:06:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T20:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=99220"},"modified":"2021-01-25T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T14:00:58","slug":"israeli-closes-international-airport-amid-virus-strain-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-closes-international-airport-amid-virus-strain-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli closes international airport amid virus strain fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisraeli-closes-international-airport-amid-virus-strain-fears%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=99220&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"315\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1272680385-315x210.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2359904\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2359904\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2359904 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1272680385-655x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2359904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; SEPTEMBER 15: Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu waves as he arrives outside the West Wing of the White House September 15, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>\nUPDATED 4:40 PM PT \u2013 Sunday, January 24, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israel-to-close-ben-gurion-airport-to-all-arrivals-amid-mutation-fears\/\">announced<\/a> Israel was shutting down the international airport to nearly all flights. This is expected to last through the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>The closure of Israel&#8217;s main airport comes as the nation struggles to contain the outbreak. The emergence of the new variant has also threatened to undercut the nation&#8217;s highly successful vaccination push to its citizens.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2359905\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2359905\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2359905 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1230764274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2359905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travellers wait by the check-in desk at the departures area of Israel&#8217;s Ben-Gurion International Airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, on January 24, 2021. &#8211; The Israeli government on January 24 banned incoming and outgoing flights for a week, a statement said, in a bid to slow the spread of Covid-19 variants. Exceptions will be made for cargo and firefighting flights, as well as medical treatments, funerals and legal procedures. (Photo by JACK GUEZ \/ AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We are shutting down the Ben Gurion Airport today,&#8221; Netanyahu stated. &#8220;As opposed to what&#8217;s being said, we are ahead of the entire world, no country has done what we are about to do. We are doing it, hermetically shutting down the sky, except for unusual rare cases, to prevent the entry of variants of the virus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Israeli PM  Netanyahu on travel ban: <br \/>&quot;We are closing Ben Gurion Airport&#8230;we&#039;re acting faster than the rest of the world. No country has done what we are about to do, we are closing the skies in order to prevent the entry of mutations and variants of the virus.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wnXSxSOrLa\">pic.twitter.com\/wnXSxSOrLa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i24NEWS_EN\/status\/1353404483573854210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The closure will go into effect at midnight Monday and will remain in effect until at least January 31.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-romney-costs-of-bidens-1-9t-covid-plan-are-shocking\/\">Sen. Romney: Costs Of Biden\u2019s $1.9T COVID Plan Are \u2018Shocking\u2019<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 SEPTEMBER 15: Prime Minister of Israel &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181103,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1272680385-315x210.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Israeli closes international airport amid virus strain fears","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1272680385-315x210.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Israeli closes international airport amid virus strain fears","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}